Updated 7:51 am, Thursday, November 29, 2012

Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk school board member Rodney Krzykowski listens to a speaker during a board meeting at the high school library on Tuesday night Feb. 28, 2012 in Ravena, N.Y. (Philip Kamrass / Times Union )

BETHLEHEM — Code violation charges against Coeymans resident and school board member Rodney Krzykowski, alleging excessive garbage, weeds and inoperable or unregistered vehicles on his property will likely be dropped, according to town officials.

In a Bethlehem town court conference Tuesday afternoon, Coeymans building inspector and code enforcement officer Laverne Conrad told the court that Krzykowski had been slowly complying with orders to clean up his Route 143 property. The case is being handled in Bethlehem because Coeymans town court justices have recused themselves from the case.

"The bulk of it is gone," said Conrad in an interview with the Times Union, referring to the mounds of garbage on Kryzkowski's property.

If Kryzkowski can get "the mess cleaned up" by his next court date on Dec. 19, "the charges will probably be dismissed," Conrad said, adding that it appeared Kryzkowski was taking a long time to clean up the property because he is doing it all himself.

Kryzkowski is a Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District board member and self-described "sovereign citizen," which the FBI describes as anti-government extremists who believe that even though they are in the country they are separate or "sovereign" from the United States. He runs a tire-recovery business, RAK Tire, on the property, according to his home voicemail message and documents filed with the state Department of Environmental Conservation in 2010.

His property at one point gained a reputation for being cluttered with tires as well as mounds of dirt, old cars and 18-wheeler trailers.

In 2010, he agreed to pay a $2,000 fine after the DEC concluded he had 4,000 to 6,000 waste tires on his property without a permit.

The town of Coeymans violations were leveled against Kryzkowski last November.

But Conrad said that Kryzkowski was "slowly but surely progressing" in the cleanup of the mess on his property.

Krzykowski, who represented himself on the charges, did not return a call for comment.